AEQUATORIALES^-CORIACEAE 79 



joints 30- to 50-flowered in 44-2 series. Approaching the next species. 

 Plate 102. 



Guatemalan and Isthmian regions. The type from San Salvador. 



Specimens examined: GUATEMALA. Masagua, Escuintla (Smith, 

 2097}. Dept. Guatemala (Kellerman, 5100). Fiscal (Deam, 6099). 

 Without locality (Friedrichsfkal, 1841). EL SALVADOR. San Salvador 

 (Itenson, 284, 1908, the type). NICARAGUA. Without locality (Roth- 

 schuli, 464). Matagalpa (Preuss, 1372). COSTA RICA. El Rodeo (Pit- 

 tier, 1637) . 



Phoradendron falcifolium n. sp. 



Scarcely forked, microscopically cellular-papillate, the rather long 

 branches with basal cataphyls only, dioecious?. Internodes moderate 

 (3-4x50-70 mm.), transiently somewhat compressed and dilated below the 

 nodes becoming terete. Cataphyls a single pair, nearly basal, scarcely 

 tubular. Leaves broadly lanceolate, falcate, obtuse, 2.5-4x10-14 cm., cu- 

 neately subpetioled for 15-25 mm. Spikes clustered, moderate (30 mm.), 

 with about 6 moderate subglobose joints 20- to 30-flowered in 6 series: 

 peduncle scarcely 20 mm. long: scales transiently and minutely eiliate. 

 Fruit?. Plate 100. 



Guatemalan region. The type from Baja Vera Paz. 



Specimens examined: GUATEMALA. Sta. Rosa, Baja Vera Paz (v. 

 Tuerckheim, ii, 2168, Mar. 1908, the type). 



19. COBIACEAE. 



Leaves rather small, dull, obscurely basinerved. Shoots 2-edged or 

 terete. Cataphyls 1-3 or 4 pairs, on the basal joint only. Flowers in 

 4, 4+2, or 6 series. Fruit round or ellipsoid, smooth, with variously in- 

 flexed or parted sepals. South America. 



Stems not very nodose. 

 Leaves smooth. 



Lanceolate. P. congestum. 



Oblanceolate-obovate. P. caripense. 



Lance-elliptical or ovate. P. Herbert-Smithii. 



Narrowly oblong. P. exiguum. 



Leaves drying rough-granular. 

 Internodes quickly terete. 



Leaves linear. P. stenophyllum. 



Leaves rather lanceolate. P. coriaceum. 



Internodes 2-edged. P. ulophyllum. 



Stems much swollen at the nodes : leaves linear- 



oblanceolate. P. habrostacJiyum. 



